In a first, a visually impaired candidate has been successful in clearing the sight after Advocate-on-Record (AoR) examination.
Advocate N Visakamurthy attempted the December 2022 AoR Exam with the help of a scribe and came out successful as he cleared it. This is first of its kind incident in history of Supreme Court.
The candidate has given his vote of thanks to Chief Justice of India, the Registrar-General of the Supreme Court, the Attorney-General for India, and the Secretary of the Department of Legal Affairs for their continued support.
He however pointed out some loopholes in the existing testing infrastructure, particularly the nature of the questions that candidates had to answer. He also complained about grant of an additional hour, despite the requirement of having to attempt the same papers as persons without such disabilities and rejection of his request for special correction.
He hoped that in the future, candidates with visual impairments may
be allowed to take the examination with law students acting as their
scribes.
Last year, he had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court seeking inter alia, the framing of appropriate guidelines for persons with visual impairments to write the AoR examination considering the existing guidelines framed by different examination agencies.
The petition was mentioned before CJI DY Chandrachud who categorically denied grant of a lawyer as a scribe but assured him that he would pass administrative orders allowing him to employ the services of a different scribe.
He had also pointed out that having a scribe without any legal knowledge would increase the likelihood of errors and erode the quality of answers and listed following demands in the petition:
(a) Scribe qualification
(b) Extra or more time
(c)Separate room
(d) Visually challenged person papers should be sent to the examiner separately as per CBSE guidelines
(e) Alternative method of examination-oral-objective.
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